Your saying.... the secret development of an American product, stolen and displayed in it's entirety. Which foreign competitors now have the ability to take advantage of, in turn, enabling them to modify their products. Unfortunately with a two month window, hold no value to you?
Basically stating, that it's OK to take a potentially game changing device and spread it across the airwaves for all to see, because of freedom of speech, when it was acquired by illegal means?
Your saying it's OK to steal trade secrets for the better good of what? The advertising click threw ratio on a blog site?
Thank you. I've been arguing this for days:
§ 1832. Theft of trade secrets
(a) Whoever, with intent to convert a trade secret, that is related to or included in a product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce, to the economic benefit of anyone other than the owner thereof, and intending or knowing that the offense will, injure any owner of that trade secret, knowingly
(1) steals, or without authorization appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information;
(2) without authorization copies, duplicates, sketches, draws, photographs, downloads, uploads, alters, destroys, photocopies, replicates, transmits, delivers, sends, mails, communicates, or conveys such information;
(3) receives, buys, or possesses such information, knowing the same to have been stolen or appropriated, obtained, or converted without authorization;
(4) attempts to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3); or
(5) conspires with one or more other persons to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3), and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy,
shall, except as provided in subsection (b), be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
(b) Any organization that commits any offense described in subsection (a) shall be fined not more than $5,000,000.
